Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam released five prisoners Wednesday as part of a deal over the eastern Ghouta town of Douma, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The UK-based war monitor said the insurgents had kidnapped them from the nearby town of Adra around five years ago....

British members of parliament from the opposition Labor party visited northern Syria Wednesday to express solidarity with the region's embattled Kurdish minority. Their visit came at a time when Kurdish-controlled areas faced the threat of military operations by neighboring Turkey and...

A police force drawn up by Syria’s interim government is helping restore security in the liberated city of Afrin. Police Commander Mohamed al-Bushi told Anadolu Agency on Monday that police would eventually assume responsibility for security in Afrin once the Turkish military and the...

Syrian rebel factions in the region of Eastern Qalamoun, an opposition-held pocket north east of Damascus, announced their refusal to strike an evacuation deal similar to that seen in Eastern Ghouta, that would cede territory back to the Assad regime, al-Araby al-Jadeed reported. The group...